Joni Mitchell - Refuge Of The Roads Lyrics
I met a friend of spiritHe drank and womanizedAnd I sat before his sanityI was holding back from cryingHe saw my complicationsAnd he mirrored me back simplifiedAnd we laughed how our perfectionWould always be deniedHeart and humor and humilityHe said will lighten up your heavy loadI left him for the refuge of the roadsI fell in with some driftersCast upon a beachtownWinn dixie cold cuts and highway hand me downsAnd I wound up fixing dinnerFor them and boston jimI well up with affectionThinking back down the roads to thenThe nets were overflowingIn the gulf of mexicoThey were overflowing in the refuge of the roadsThere was spring along the ditchesThere were good times in the citiesOh, radiant happinessIt was all so light and easyTill I started analyzingAnd I brought on my old waysA thunderhead of judgment wasGathering in my gazeAnd it made most people nervousThey just didnt want to knowWhat I was seeing in the refuge of the roadsI pulled off into a forestCrickets clicking in the fernsLike a wheel of fortuneI heard my fate turn, turn turnAnd I went running down a white sand roadI was running like a white-assed deerRunning to lose the bluesTo the innocence in hereThese are the clouds of michelangeloMuscular with gods and sungoldShine on your witness in the refuge of the roadsIn a highway service stationOver the month of juneWas a photograph of the earthTaken coming back from the moonAnd you couldnt see a cityOn that marbled bowling ballOr a forest or a highwayOr me here least of allYou couldnt see these cold water restroomsOr this baggage overloadWestbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads
